Every day in "Historically yours", the presenter Stéphane Bern and the historian Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach compete in a historical and unusual quiz.
Would you be able to face them?
To find out, we have concocted thematic quizzes based on the questions asked every day to our two specialists.
Astonishing inventions in ten questions.
From the spritz to the croque-monsieur via the whoopee cushion, answer the questions that made our presenter grow and laugh our presenter Stéphane Bern and our historian Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach in the sequence "Bern to be alive", every day in
Historically yours
, between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Europe 1.
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Can you do as well as them?
It was the Egyptians who invented the strike.
True or false ?
Greco-Roman wrestling was invented by a grumbler in the Napoleonic army.
True or false ?
The spritz owes its invention to Nazi Germany.
True or false ?
The croque-monsieur was invented by a Parisian bistro who often fought with his customers and bit them.
True or false ?
In 1964, the computer mouse was invented.
We called it that because we used real mice to invent this accessory.
True or false ?
In memory of Good Friday, Christians eat fish on Friday.
That's why McDonalds created the Filet-o-fish.
True or false ?
James Chadick is a British physicist who discovered the neutron, but also the patch.
True or false ?
In 1970, the RER was inaugurated.
What little problem delayed its commissioning?
The famous and timeless joke of the whoopee cushion is very old, it dates from the Roman Empire.
True or false ?
December 3, 1992, historic date.
This is the first time that an SMS has been sent.
But what did this sms say?
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